Don’t Vote For Me
The nominations for the Irish Blog Awards have been announced and Irish KC has received four nominations.
UPDATE: Voting closed on Feb 16, 2007
It would be kind of easy to ask friends, relations, colleagues, readers even, to vote for me in those categories but that would turn the Irish Blog Awards into a competition of who has the most friends. And I’d obviously then lose.
So by all means do vote for my A Kansas City Phone Call to an Irish Mother or my Irish Conversations as Most Humorous Post, but make sure you’ve had a look at posts by Sweary, Twenty, and Blogorrah before you do.
In the Best Designed Blog category vote for Irish KC (labelled as “From Ireland To Kansas City”) after making sure you prefer it to 5 Pieces, Ken McGuire, Nialler 9, Beaut.ie and Jason Roe.
And in the Best Specialist Blog vote for Irish KC if you think it deserves it over Beaut.ie, An Irish Craftworker’s Good Life, Howth Coastguard and One Breast Less
Vote HERE
Check out the Full List of Nominations for the rest of the nominees in the categories Irish KC is nominated for, and for some great sites in all categories.
If you’re new to Irish KC: Some of the more popular posts are listed on the far right. And if you’re not new to Irish KC they’re still over there. Main categories not necessarily KC-related are listed in the centre column.
When I cast my votes, I’ll post them. Go do some reading.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
You missed one Eolaí: In Most Humorous Post you have another nomination - Irish Conversations i.e. The whole lot - the box set. I nominated it and wasn’t sure if it would qualify, being a collection, but it does.
And I never noticed you were in for Best Design! They listed you as ‘From Ireland to Kansas City’ which I didn’t recognise. Sorry! I’ve already done my voting. Can’t change it now.
I wanted to vote for the steven staunton f/o blog but it did’nt make it si i voted for your instead,well done Eolai, get your best suit out!!!!
God bless you sneezy, but tell me, do ya think it’s wise to run two candidates in such a large constituency?
Ya think Mulley and Roe would’ve organised a webform with Single Transferable Vote capabilities - I mean how hard can it be - they could’ve asked the government for a hand.
A lot of the larger parties are running two candidates. Sweary, BifSbiff, Twenty and Blogorrah. So I don’t see a problem. Although I see Snackbox has pulled one candidate.
I’d throw a Wimbley trying to decide which to withdraw.
Do you really want to win this? Or is it just a bit of craic - a nice-to-have?
And don’t talk to me about PR-STV. I had to do a mini-thesis, including coding software, on the Irish system last year. It was a headache. And scary too when I realised it simply wasn’t possible without rewriting the Electoral Act to suit.
Colm, you are a great man - except for that tendency to dabble in Asian peer-to-peer television.
Primal, Oh it’s definitely a bit of craic - with the nomination process, long list and then short list, jury and the event itself, Damien has really created a bit of buzz around it. I think he’s singlehandedly showing Ireland where blogging can go.
This is now my seventh year of blogging in various guises but the strength of the Best Newcomer list is for me the best thing about these awards.
Oh, and on the STV thing - no need for a Constitutional Amendment?
I said ‘don’t talk to me about it’
Anyway … I don’t know whether it would need an Amendment. Probably.
The requirements, as set out in the Act, cannot be translated into a computerised solution without the software developer making assumptions. These include storage of votes, counting and recounting and there is no mention of security.
Even if all these were sorted out there are the issues of human machine interaction and proving the machine actually did what it was supposed to. The former is the real problem and the message from most papers I’ve read and conferences I’ve attended, is that because of this a perfect system of electronic voting of even minor complexity will never be achievable. Never. The computer issues can be overcome but not the human ones.
That makes a whole lot of sense, and I always thought surrendering perfection would be legally problematic and probably unconstitutional - though I haven’t given it too much thought, what with the distance and all.
I meant to ask before: When are you moving back, Eolaí? Will it be in time for the awards?
Alas unless something strange happens - like a job offer in Dublin starting in two weeks - I won’t make it to the awards. Regardless of being involved in the nominations, I would really like to go though - as I enjoy the creativity and energy in the Irish blogging communiity. It also might have been a very good opportunity for me to network as I go a begging for employment in Ireland.
There is no date yet for the move - but one is imminent. There are a couple of items of business here to take care of before I move and both are in progress.